Billiard-table cushion



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BERTON II. FOGG, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

BILLIARD-h-,TABLE CUSHION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 550,715, dated December 3, 1895.. Application filed January 30, 1895. Serial No, 536,698. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERTON H. FOGG, of Somerville, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Billiard-Table Cushions, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

My invention relates to the particular formation and relation of the parts that form the cushion of a billiard-table, the objects being to increase the elasticity of the cushion, also to make it adhere better to the rail, and to make it more durable. These objects I attain by means of the construction shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a vertical section showing a part of the framework of a billiardtable, the cush. ion rail, and cushion. Fig. 2 shows in perspective amethod of constructing a reinforcing strip for the cushion.

The frame and top of the table may be made in any of the well-known styles.

My invention relates entirely to the parts that are in direct relation to the cushion and to the cushion proper.

In the drawings, B and C represent parts of the frame, and I) the top of the table.

His a cushion-rail, which is made in the usual manner, except that the front face h 7L h2 is curved like the surface of a cylinder, so as to t into a corresponding concave surface found in the rubber cushion M. By malring the contacting surfaces of the rail H and cushion M curved, as shown, I increase the area of the adhering surface, and thus insure greater strength of union between the cushion and the cushion-rail.

In my form of cushion the rear curved -face 7L 7L h2 forms with the front face an acute angle-that is, the front and rear faces form a thin wedge at the lower angle h2, so that the strain caused by blow of the ball on the cushion will be in a direction nearly parallel with the cemented surface h2 h Thus the greatest possible resitance is offered by the cemented junction h2 7L to the rending action of the ball. I'Ieretofore the angle between the face of the cushion and the plane of the cemented surface-that is, the jnuction between the cushion and the rail-has been large, so that the strain. caused by the ball in striking the cushion has been nearly at right angles to the cemented surface, so that the full force ofthe ball was exerted in, separating the cushion from the rail. By my method I obviate this and makea cemented junction between the cushion and the rail that affords the greatest possible resistance to the tearing-olf action of the ball. 4

" My cushion is improved by embodying in it near the contacting edge a stay-strip consisting of a iiat metallic piece N, guarded by a cloth P P. Said cloth is so folded and arranged as to project beyond the edge of the piece N, as shown at p P p, and is cemented together and to the piece N. The projecting edge p P p extends from the piece N toward the contacting edge of the cushion, as shown. The object of this part is to interpose between the contacting edge of the cushion and the metal piece N a guard, which shall pre vent the said metal piece N from cutting the rubber of the cushion when the same is subjected to the action of the ball.

I claimad A 1. In a billiard table a cushion and cushion rail so formed and united that the cemented junction between the two shall form a curved 'plane which forms a small angle with the front plane of the cushion, whereby the cemented joint shall offer the greatest resistance to the tearing action of the ball substan tially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a billiard table cushion the combination of a metallic strip embedded therein: with a guard of thin liexible material attached to the said metallic strip and having a member extending above said metallic strip toward the front edge of the cushion whereby the shock of the ball upon the rubber will not be transferred directly to the junction of the rubber and the metallic strip but will be warded off by said member substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 14th day 0f January, A. D. 1895.

-BERTON lll. FOGG. Witnesses:

FRANK G. PARKER, C. H. RICHARDSON. 

